Field Cultivator Shanks Replaced With Heavy-Duty Coil Shanks

Field Cultivator Shanks Replaced With Heavy-Duty Coil Shanks CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 18-3-9 After he got tired of replacing broken compression springs on the shanks of his 12-ft. field cultivator, Robert Haws, Grassie, Ontario, decided to replace the shanks with heavy-duty 1-in. sq. steel coil shanks, then bolted new field cultivator points onto them. "The cultivator now works better than new," says Haws. "The original springs were always breaking on rocks, but I haven't broken even one of these coil shanks. They either jump over rocks or jerk them out. The shanks were designed to be mounted on a bar angled upward so I had to cut out the mounting brackets to fit my cultivator's flat bars. My cultivator has four rows of shanks. I got the coil shanks from my brother-in-law. No one seems to know what type of implement they were designed for, but Deere stopped making them years ago. I got them from my brother-in-law for nothing. I spent about $400 for new Deere points and for labor to modify the mounting brackets. "I pull a field cultivator equipped with S-tine shanks behind this cultivator to smooth out the ground. I had to rebuild the hitch on back of cultivator and lower it 8 in. in order to keep the back row of shanks from digging too deep. I also pull a packer-roller and a chain harrow behind the two cultivators. I use a Deere 3155 4-WD tractor to pull all of the implements." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Robert Haws, Rt. 1, Grassie, Ontario, Canada LOR 1MO (ph 905 945-4668).

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